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CHCS, also known as Community Health and Counseling Services, was founded in 1883 when a group of churchwomen organized Associated Charities, a coalition of church and voluntary charitable organizations. It has various departments, such as children s services, home health and adult mental health services. Its children's services division offers community-based residential and outpatient programs serving children and their families in need of intensive help with emotional and behavioral challenges. Its adult mental health services department provides a wide range of services to adults with mental illnesses. Its home health division provides various services, including advanced wound care and enterostomal therapy, AIDS care, Alzheimer's disease consultation services, chemotherapy and cardiac rehabilitation. CHCS is Medicare- and Medicaid-certified and is located in Lincoln, Maine.

Community Health and Counseling Services, located in Bangor, Maine, offers a wide variety of home health and mental health care services to people. Its children's services department offers various services and facilities, including foster care, diagnostic and assessment services, group homes, substance abuse treatment, youth crisis services, education, and day treatment and outpatient therapy. Community Health and Counseling Services Adult mental health services include housing options, including group homes and transitional housing, partial hospitalization services, and medication monitoring and community living services. Founded in 1883 as Associated Charities, a coalition of church and voluntary charitable organizations located in and around Bangor.

CHCS (Community Health and Counseling Services) began in 1883. It serves as one of the lead agencies of Northeast Crisis Service, which since 1997 has been providing an array of crisis prevention and intervention services to children and adults in Hancock, Penobscot, Piscataquis and Washington counties. CHCS is one of the largest providers of home health services in New England. In addition to specialized nursing care, home health aides and homemaker services, its health services department provides special programs for the elderly and people with Alzheimer's disease, rehabilitation therapies, medical social work, Cardiac rehabilitation services and a new Hospice program.